Install Sphinx on Ubuntu

4 Aug 2009, 6:08pm
Linux: configure install make search engine sphinx ubuntu
by bseanvt

3 comments

It’s a pretty straightforward process. Download the source and compile it. There isn’t a package for it so here are the commands.

wget http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf sphinx-0.9.8.1.tar.gz
cd  sphinx-0.9.8.1/
./configure
make
make install

When it’s done nothing fancy happens. You’ll need to test it out w/ an application/ the api.

Hari

Hi
Could you please explain me how to test the sphinx working or not.. im not clear from your notes
admin

sphinx will index content from your database and provide a server to access it. on it’s own it won’t do anything w/out a data source.

i set up sphinx w/ rails using the thinking_sphinx plugin, which provides a nice dsl for setting up indexes and searching using sphinx. more info on the rails plugin here http://freelancing-god.github.com/ts/en/

if you want to use sphinx w/out rails and/or the thinking_sphinx plugin, you need to setup your own configuration files and indexing tasks. more info available here http://www.sphinxsearch.com/docs/manual-0.9.9.html#quick-tour

does that answer your question?
admin

the notes above just cover download and install of it since (at the time of the post) there wasn’t a package for installing it on ubuntu